netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm : lock input tasklet skb queue

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:12:57 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
Cc:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm : lock input tasklet skb queue

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:31:13AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote:
> When preempt rt is full, softirq and interrupts run in kthreads. So it
> is possible for the tasklet to sleep and for its queue to get modified
> while it sleeps.

This is ridiculous.  The network stack is full of assumptions
like this.  So I think we need to fix preempt rt instead because
you can't make a major change like this without auditing the entire
kernel first rather than relying on a whack-a-mole approach.

Cheers,
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